Mgr. Fedora Parkmann, Ph.D.

Researcher at the Department of Art of the 19th-21st Centuries and CVF – Photography Research Centre

Fedora Parkmann is the principal investigator of the five-year grant project The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art. 

She studied art history at Sorbonne University (M.A. in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2017) and École du Louvre in Paris. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2019-2021) and at the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES) in 2022. Her research interests include the history and theory of photography, art in the 20th century, and transnational approaches in art history. Her postdoctoral research examined interwar Czech social photography from a transnational perspective. Her current project focuses on photomechanical reproductions of art in art journals in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and Russia from 1900 to 1950. She is specifically interested in their role as vehicles of artistic exchange. Her latest articles on transnational exchange in Czech photography have appeared in Notebook for Art, Theory, and Related Zones, History of Photography and Revue des études slaves.
 

Main research outputs:

F. Parkmann, Internationalizing Czechoslovak Photography under State Socialism: The Book Series Umělecká fotografie, 1958–1968, Sešity pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, č. 39, 2025, s. 120–161

Edited issue: C. Balbi – K. Mašterová – F. Parkmann, Shaping Cultural Identities Through Photomechanical Reproduction, Photography & Culture, č. 2, XVIII, 2025, s. 113-120.

F. Parkmann, La photogénie entre France et Tchécoslovaquie : un point de convergence lexical et esthétique de la modernité photographique, Revue des études slaves, no. 1, vol. 93, 2022, p. 147–163

F. Parkmann, Asserting Photography’s Social Function: Exhibitions of Soviet Photography in Interwar Czechoslovakia, History of Photography, no. 1, vol. 45, 2022, p. 139–161

Current projects:

The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art (Lumina Quaeruntur, 2023-2027, principal investigator)